ASG-Zara is a cost-effective, online media management system that secures, audits, and monitors valuable IT data in z/OS environments, while providing real-time access to tape management data. ASG-Zara vigilantly protects critical data through retention, interactively tracks data for administration and reporting purposes, offers real-time robotic support, and provides sophisticated vaulting functions. In addition, ASG-Zara tracks the physical location and data set contents for every volume, determines the status of tapes, and performs database maintenance.

ASG-Zara also identifies media that should be scratched for reuse and data sets, or volume numbers, that should be protected. ASG-Zara also tracks archived data, whether it is stored on-site or off-site, and presents information in both online displays and hard copy reports.  Further, ASG-Zara’s automated management and protection of media eliminates manual tracking and storage.

• Provides sophisticated audit, comprehensive electronic vault management for timely recovery, and rich reporting capabilities
• Provides real-time, interactive online tape management with true, peer-to-peer silo support
• Manages both on-site and off-site data with multiple retention criteria

Resources

• ASG-Zara datasheet (PDF)
• ASG-Zara/CA-1 client case study (PDF)

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